DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

siridb.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.siridb.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2011

2010

1992

2017

2001

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

Numeric data

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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